The Lines That Define Me -
Lighter than I expected and an often gorgeous film about finding your own lines in art and traditional forms, the ones that express your own emotions and the life in them

The lines of this film shift from delicate to joyful to bold to struggle to fulfilling. In that, it embodies the ethos of its story.

https://mydramalist.com/724317-sen-wa-boku-o-kaku

#JFF2024 (films available online until 18th-19th June (depending on time zone)
#JFilm #JDrama #AsianDrama

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
quietly exquisite

(better review down thread. i finally found adequate words but they were more than 500 chars)

https://mydramalist.com/52031-hanataba-mitaina-koi-o-shita

#JFF2024 #JFilm #JDrama #AsianFilm

Single8
Another youth film focused on creativity, a visual art and finding your own voice. High school students work together, with the help of a uni film student and a history teacher, pushing themselves, their skills and ingenuity to make a short science fiction film with meaning.
It's left me with a big smile 💖

https://mydramalist.com/744379-single8

#JFF2024 #JFilm #JDrama #AsianFilm #Film

The Lone Ume Tree

About acceptance of difference and problems caused by those quick to judge. Cho-san has both learning disabilities and autism, needs his routines and works in a supported facility. He also has a great mum and difficult neighbours.

https://mydramalist.com/702449-ume-kiranu-baka

#JFF2024 #JFilm #JDrama #AsianFilm #Film

Father of the Milky Way Railroad

Beautiful, poetic melodrama depicting a romanticised and idealised life of an idealistic young man who, after his death, became one of Japan's most loved poets and writers.
Now to read some of his writings while this is still fresh in my mind.

https://mydramalist.com/738627-ginga-tetsudo-no-chichi

#JFF2024 #JFilm #JDrama #Poetry #Film

The Invitation

One of the four prize-winning short horror films in #JFF2024

Glad I watched it during the afternoon :) Got a jump scare from the sound, I was using headphones and it was Right There 😂
The ending brought it together and made it extra creepy.

https://mydramalist.com/770973-the-invitation

#Horror #JapaneseFilm #ShortFilm

We're Broke, My Lord!

Fast-paced, silly with a good heart and only a bit of the laughing-at not -with side of Japanese comedy I don't get on with.

There are far better films in #JFF2024 but this was alright for a change of pace. My favourite part though was cast members dancing happily during the end credits.

https://mydramalist.com/745193-daimyo-tosan

Anime Supremacy

I'm not sure what to make of this. On the one hand, I feel like there must be a lot I didn't understand. But then I'm not sure it was really in there.
Didn't get on with the first hour at all. Business pressure + ratings competition = could not care less. The whys which eventually emerged from the FL were poignant, but scant and cliched. Endings of the anime were moving.
Acting was excellent.
Interested in others' thoughts.

#JFF2024 #Film #JapaneseFilm

https://mydramalist.com/715499-haken-anime